Hurricane season 2010 is already one for the record books, tying for third most active with 19 named storms. Three weeks remain in the official season and a disorganized disturbance is drifting in the Caribbean about where Tomas was two weeks ago.

In other words, as National Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen put it, “Don’t raid the hurricane supplies yet. It’s not over until it’s over.”

But with the days, and chances, dwindling until the season ends on Nov. 30, South Florida is close to once again dodging a hail of tropical bullets — along with the entire United States mainland .

So far, there have been a dozen hurricanes and not one has made landfall in the U.S. — a streak of good fortune not seen in more than 100 years, according to Adam Lea, a hurricane researcher at University College London.